How to Use autonomous in a Sentence

autonomous

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  • Native American nations are regarded as autonomous in many respects and thus not subject to a number of state and local laws.
  • Fully autonomous planes could be coming to a flight near you—and that’s not a good thing.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
  • The software is still in beta, and is far from fully autonomous in spite of its name.
    — Allison Morrow, CNN, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Once the Clipper arrives in 2030, the autonomous craft plans to scan beneath the surface of Europa to search for signs of life.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Think back to when blockchain first appeared or the notion of an autonomous car—from hype to mainstream.
    — Ashik Ahmed, Forbes, 17 June 2022
  • The autonomous cars can watch for pedestrians, change lanes and make right-hand turns.
    — Cade Metz, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • In the future, the chips will be used in autonomous vehicles and other state-of-the-art equipment.
    — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Phoenix was already home to the largest fully autonomous service area in the U.S., but the expansion grows that area to 315 square miles.
    — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2024
  • To some critics, that’s where autonomous cars belong for the time being.
    — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In 1992, the first free elections in Iraq’s history were held in the Kurdish autonomous zone.
    — Sefa Secen & Serhun Al / Made By History, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The flight is a test for Boeing to demonstrate that its autonomous capsule can meet up with the station and then park itself.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
  • In the mid-1980s, Aruba became an autonomous entity of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
    — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The rover will be up there ahead of humans, and the goal is to have a fully autonomous vehicle that can drive around and map the terrain ahead of humankind's return to the Moon.
    — Roberto Baldwin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022
  • It's used in autonomous vehicles to determine the edge of a road, and to detect people and cars.
    — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Nature is not simply something that is outside, a kind of autonomous sphere of our lives.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Roughly the size of a small car, DART will make its way to the asteroid using a new autonomous guidance system.
    — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2022
  • All this comes as the autonomous vehicles space is going through a major change up.
    — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The fully electric truck is part of GM's plans to spend $35 billion on electric and autonomous vehicles over the next three years.
    — CBS News, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Even small errors could lead to crashes from which the autonomous drones could not recover.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The Teamsters union is likewise worried about job loss from autonomous trucks.
    — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • For autonomous vehicles, 5G is not the backbone of a self-driving car.
    — Romil Bahl, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
  • One autonomous speedboat, the Seagull, is designed to hunt mines and submarines by dragging a sonar array in its wake.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 25 July 2023
  • The autonomous government in the region had been running it since 2016.
    — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Baidu has done well with its focus on the Apollo autonomous driving system and rollout of robo-taxis.
    — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Tesla, Uber, and Lyft are showing their cards — and eyeing Texas as the new battleground for autonomous taxis.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The heating points will be equipped with autonomous power sources, as well as special boiler rooms.
    — Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Musk has been touting self-driving cars as the next big thing for years, saying in 2015 that autonomous vehicles would be on the road within two years.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Suppose the fully autonomous future never arrived—then what, or whom, would the cars be for?
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 20 July 2022
  • They're kind of wrapped up in this belief that this is an autonomous vehicle, because it's tweeted about that way.
    — Joel Rose, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025
  • Scientists do not yet know how to guarantee that autonomous agents won't use harmful or unethical methods to achieve a set goal.
    — Harry Booth, TIME, 19 Feb. 2025

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